Acqua di Gio
This Acqua di Gio is the perfume I gave my dad for Christmas. I have to thank my friend Isabelle for making me try it.
You see, my friend Isabelle only wears mens perfume, and this Acqua di Gio pour homme is one of her favorites. Ok I know your eyes went back to where I [...]
Jo Malone Perfume – Upper Class for a Day
Jo Malone perfume, posh for a day, and thanks to my friends, for more than one. I said in my previous post on Paco Rabanne 1 Million that I would talk about perfumes given and received at Christmas. This Jo Malone Lotus Blossom and Water Lily belongs to the latter category, after all I couldn’t [...]
1 Million Paco Rabanne
Guess what most of my presents (given and received) were for Christmas… yes, perfumes. So get over it, the next perfume reviews that I’ll write, will be about fragrances that I received from, or gave to someone.
Like this 1 Million Paco Rabanne. If you’ve ever seen the ad, it’s slightly more naive than the average [...]
Juicy Couture Perfume
Juicy Couture was founded as a fashion house in 1996 by two women: Gela Nash-Taylor (wife of Duran Duran’s bass guitarist John Taylor) and Pamela Skaist-Levyas. Its becoming a multimillionaire business (now owned by Liz Claiborne) passed through the creation a “luxury” perfume line. I put “luxury” in brackets because I always found Juicy Couture [...]
Jennifer Lopez perfume Glow
Glow by JLo was launched in 2002 and it was the first time for this famous pop star in the perfume industry. Of course it was not the first perfume signed by a celebrity (do you know which was the first ever? No, not Britney spears, a little bit further back in time: Elizabeth Taylor [...]
Fahrenheit Dior
It was 2005 when I first gave this Fahrenheit Dior perfume as a present to my old friend Mark. He turned 40 that day, and now that I think about it, giving him a perfume, THIS Fahrenheit Christian Dior perfume, was a risky move. We know how critical that age can be for men. When [...]
Kenzo Perfume
This Kenzo perfume is almost 20 years old (1991), the first perfume Kenzo created for men. Time flies faster than I care to remember. The first time I smelt this perfume was on a friend of mine, we were going to a Joe Jackson concert (was it 1992?), I knew Kenzo perfumes for women fairly [...]
Cartier Perfume
This was the first Cartier perfume for women, launched in 1981. It was part of Cartier’s renaissance, which had started in the sixties. After the death of the last of the founder’s nephews, the company was bought by a group of investors, and a new range of luxury products called “Les Must de Cartier,” was [...]
Prada Perfume
The re-encounters with perfumes in a perfume shop can be accidental, like with people. I first tried Prada perfume one year ago, and it didn’t really strike me, all I could remember was an intense vanilla note. I lost sight of it until last week when, after countless visits to many perfume shops I noticed [...]
Creed Perfume: Green Irish Tweed
The thing I like the most in any Creed perfume is the history of the perfume house (the House of Creed). It was founded in London by James Creed in 1760, and moved to Paris in 1854. It soon became the favorite perfume house of many European aristocracies. Today it is chaired by Oliver Creed, [...]
Hermes perfume Un Jardin
Hermes perfume Un Jardin was originally launched in 2003 in a limited edition, but it soon became the first of Hermes’ perfume line called “Gardens.” It was also the first Hermes perfume created by Jean-Claude Ellena as exclusive perfume designer of the company. The aim of Ellena’s style is to evoke memories and feelings using [...]
Happy perfume for women by Clinique
Happy perfume is a typical example of fragrance whose name is more famous than who made it. I don’t think the people at Clinique mind though, as long as Happy perfume remains one of the their most famous perfumes so far.
The name “Happy” is not just a nice name, but expresses the purpose with which [...]
Calvin Klein Perfume: Eternity
This Calvin Klein perfume is from 1988, and it is one of his most known fragrances. Even if it reached its peak of popularity during the nineties it’s still in the top ten of the most sold perfumes in the world. It was conceived as a romantic perfume, whose name is inspired by the classic [...]
The Dreamer, Versace Perfume for Men
This Gianni Versace perfume was launched just one year before its creator was murdered. It’s not like Kennedy of course, but I think every perfume enthusiast remembers where they was when Versace was murdered. I was in a friend’s house sunbathing in her garden, when the radio broke the news.
Ok, I admit I’m taking a [...]
Angel Perfume for Women
Angel perfume for women, either you love it or hate it.
I have to confess that the first time I smelled Angel Perfume by fashion designer and photographer Thierry Mugler, I didn’t like it, or I should better say I really hated it. I thought it was a joke, a failed attempt of a perfume designer, [...]
Vera Wang Perfume Princess
Vera Wang Perfume Princess, sweet Rock ‘n Roll
Vera Wang wedding dresses were the daydream of many women long before being featured in the Sex and the City movie. As happens to many in the field, the expansion to the world of perfumes and fragrances was simply natural, with the creation of Vera Wang perfumes brand.
The [...]
Opium Perfume for Women by Yves Saint Laurent
Opium perfume for women, challenging bourgeois values one ad at the time.
Opium perfume was the king of the 80s, and even though now it’s starting to show its age there’s no doubt that it’s here to stay.
When it was launched in 1977, the name caused a lot of protests in the United States, which did [...]